Podcast appearances and mentions of Charles H Wright

40 year Wright Museum veteran Kevin Davidson joined Donna and Orlando to talk about the legacy of Dr. Wright (Detroit's Baby Deliverer, Lover of Art & History), his relationship with him and the ever expanding Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. Kevin who happens to be Donna's hubby who also serves as the Director of Fabrication and Design at The Wright was recently featured on Detroit Public Television's American Black Journal where Orlando interviewed him. You can see the interview here. Plan your visit to the Wright Museum today! 

Devon O'Reilly joins the podcast for his weekly segment, a day early — with Hot Toddys in hand. On your Daily Detroit: 01:41 - Woodward in Ferndale and Pleasant ridge is narrowing to make the area more people-friendly. It's set off a ton of discussion online, but we foreshadowed this move last week. Crossing Woodward as a pedestrian is like crossing as many lanes as a freeway at Nine mile. But some people don't want to add 30 seconds to their commute. Background: https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2022/01/12/dream-cruise-birthplace-woodward-lose-lanes-bikes-walkers/9177803002/ 06:36 - The Under Armour store in downtown Detroit is closing. We talk about why Devon's not too worried about it; Jer spills some tea on a lead he has that retail on Woodward may get a new tenant. What kind?  09:06 - Roast is closing permanently. We discuss the impact of the restaurant, but also how diners may have moved forward. Great Lakes Coffee in Midtown Detroit is closed temporarily due to COVID after employees went to the media to talk about how management is handling the situation.  11:19 - SuperCrisp is opening on Cass just south of Woodward on the Wayne State campus. This could be a great fit as it's Japanese-American fast casual. The menu looks tasty. 12:58 - Eastern Market is getting a gourmet grocery story and Jewish deli 13:52 - The Detroit Historial Museum and the Charles H. Wright are gearing up for millage campaigns if a new law passes. But what's notable about mentioning this early? They don't plan to include Macomb County. Jer sees a growing rift between Macomb and the duo of Oakland and Wayne, and a way forward to get things done since Macomb as a whole doesn't always seem interested in playing ball. Not only did those organizations see it in their patron and supporter data, but we see it in ours. Background reading on the original story: https://www.crainsdetroit.com/nonprofit/detroit-historical-wright-museums-plan-seek-operating-millage-wayne-oakland-counties 16:39 The Robocop statue is done! It left the artist's facility and you can go to Instagram to see the pictures. But unanswered.. where should it go? We throw out a couple ideas. What are yours? dailydetroit - at- gmail - dot - com. Or leave a voicemail. 313-789-3211  Here are photos: https://www.instagram.com/p/CYpCCaxvNYk/ If this is your first time meeting the show, don't forget to follow us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, or wherever you download podcasts.

Dr. Pam Perry is an award-winning communications professional. She teaches and mentors speakers and authors on how to build a platform and attract major media and publishing contracts. She is also the publisher of SPEAKERS MAGAZINE and co-founder of Digital Business Acceleration. After working with Dr. Pam, her clients have been featured on CNN, TBN, The Word Network, Radio One, Oprah Magazine, Tom Joyner Morning Show, Essence, Ebony, Black Enterprise, PBS – and many other major media outlets. Her clients have been offered major publishing contracts, and have created successful full-time careers as “authorpreneurs” earning six-figures.   She has been called by Publishers Weekly a “PR Guru” and featured in many major publications (including several covers), and on more than 100 radio and TV programs. She also has a 20+ year career expertise in marketing, public relations and journalism in Detroit; including work with The Detroit Free Press, WNIC, The Edge with Jeffrey Miller, Radio One, Michigan Chronicle, WNIC and TheHUB Detroit magazine.   Dr. Pam has worked with many nonprofit organizations, like the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and the Detroit Area Agency on Aging, developing their social media presence, online brand and digital marketing programs. She is also author of Synergy Energy: How to Use the Power of Partnerships to Market Your Book, Grow Your Business and  Brand Your Ministry.   Known as the master of connecting the right people, for the right project, at the right time – Pam Perry PR works hard to help her clients brand (and get paid) like a superstar.   http://pamperrypr.com  

Shirley Woodson is an artist and educator. She's the 2021 Kresge Eminent Artist. Her solo show, Why Do I Delight is up at the Detroit Artists Market through 10/23. You can download or purchase the new Shirley Woodson monograph, here. To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT: ZAK: Shirley Woodson shares an art studio with her son. It's right off the highway on the west side of Detroit. But once you step inside, it's peaceful and warm. Her work cover the walls and they're stacked in piles on the floor.  MS. WOODSON: That's a collage. A recent one I did about my family.  ZAK: Ms. Woodson has been in Detroit since 1938 when her parents moved the family from Tennessee. She was just a baby. Today, she's one of Detroit's most celebrated and beloved artists. She makes big, colorful figurative paintings. And she's kind of obsessed with horses.  MS. WOODSON : I do a lot of horses with women riders which I've been doing for a long time. But each one is a challenge.  ZAK: Today she's gonna work on the front right leg of a burnt orange horse galloping alongside a short haired woman in white. Her work is part of permanent collections at the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. Kresge Arts recently named her their eminent artist of 2021. They wrote...quote "decades of success as an artist, paired with her exceptional and tireless commitment to ensure educational and career opportunities for all artists, have ensured the story of art in Detroit is far more inclusive and honest than it would have been without her efforts. It has also ensured her place as a revered and renowned pillar of Detroit's creative community." Ms. Woodson's has offered creative advice to students for decades. And perhaps the most foundational art lesson she teaches is this. MS. WOODSON : Well there are no wrong answers in your seeking to express an idea. And there's more than one way to get your idea across. 3 + 3 is 6. 4 + 2 is 6. And 12-6 is 6.  ZAK: And since there are no wrong answers. When we're starting out as kids or adult beginners, Ms. Woodson teaches we don't need erasers on our pencils. And we don't throw our work away! MS. WOODSON : Occasionally I would hear a crumple, crumple, crumple of paper. 'Can I have another sheet of paper? I said, 'We're gonna use all of that and remember. We have to keep all your drawing because we want to see the improvement. We can't see the improvement if it's in the waste basket. ZAK: Before we go. I'm gonna leave you with a lesson you can try at home today. MS. WOODSON : You need 5 sheets of...I was gonna say typing. But nobody types anymore. 5 sheets of paper. And draw a circle, free hand. Hold your pencil so that your hand is not touching the paper. And then place the pencil point on the paper and using your shoulder and the whole motion draw the circle and it can be big to take up the whole paper and go arond as many times as it takes you to see the circle come out. Remember it's your hand that's making the motion. And then you do 4 more. Then you can put something inside of those circles. Do not erase. Sign it and date it and put it in a folder. This may be your beginning.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Leonard Jeffries discusses The Film, ‘Hapi: Economics, African Culture, Politics,  & The Detroit Screening of ‘Hapi' at the CHWMAA, Sept. 26th which is part of a Multi-City Tour.  We discussed Dr. Cheik Anta Diop, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, Dr. Yosef ben Jochannon, Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, Africa the Mother of Civilization, Pan-Africanism and much more.   Detroit Screening of ‘Hapi', Sun., Sept. 26th, 3pm EST @ The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. Michael Imhotep will moderate The Panel Discussion. Visit www.HapiFilm.com for information or www.AfricanHistoryNetwork.com.  

From the Flint water crisis to Newark, Jersey water privatization schemes, capitalism is fostering multiple environmental, economic, and health crises affecting the working class and poor around their drinking water. Are these realities rooted in a problem of "systemic racism," or are these factors further examples of how capitalism is cannibalizing the poor and working class while larger segments of Black America are part of that class? We will discuss race, capitalism and infrastructure in this episode.   About Professor Rector: Josiah Rector is an urban historian specializing in 20th century U.S. urban environmental history, the history of the environmental justice movement, and the history of capitalism. He earned his Ph.D. in History from Wayne State University, and his dissertation received the Urban History Association's Michael Katz Award for Best Dissertation in Urban History, 2016. He was subsequently a visiting professor of U.S. and Environmental History at Northland College in 2017-2019. His current book project, Toxic Debt: Race, Capitalism, and the Struggle for Environmental Justice in Detroit (forthcoming from University of North Carolina Press, series in Justice, Power, and Politics), is a history of environmental inequality and environmental activism in Detroit from the late 19th century to the present. He has published articles in The Journal of American History and Modern American History, and he is currently planning a second book on the political ecology of urban environmental disasters in the United States since World War II. He also has extensive experience in public history. He coordinated public history internships through the Next Gen Humanities Ph.D. Program at Wayne State University in 2017-2018, and he co-organized the Michigan Humanities Council's Third Coast Conversations: Dialogues about Water Program for the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in 2018-2019.   About Keith Pluymers: After doing my BA at the University of Delaware, I completed my PhD at the University of Southern California, graduating in 2015. I then was the Howard and Susanne Jessen Postdoctoral Instructor in the Humanities at Caltech. Since 2018, I have been an Assistant Professor in the History Department at Illinois State University. My research focuses on the environmental history of early modern Europe and the Atlantic World. I have taught classes on early modern Europe, historical methods, global environmental history, the histories of conservation and sustainability, rivers and history, and doing history in the Anthropocene.   Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH!   Become a patron now https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents?   Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, (specially YouTube!) THANKS Y'ALL   Get THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Merch here:  https://www.thisisrevolutionpodcast.com/   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9WtLyoP9QU8sxuIfxk3eg Twitch: www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast www.twitch.tv/leftflankvets​   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/   Twitter: @TIRShowOakland Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland   Medium: https://jasonmyles.medium.com/kill-the-poor-f9d8c10bc33d   Pascal Robert in Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/Pascal%20Robert   The Dispatch on Zero Books: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SZSs-PpSKE&t=48s

March 23, 2021 ~ The President of the Tuskegee Airmen National Museum talks to Paul about moving the Museum into the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit.

In this episode we got to sit down with Ariel Yaniv Ha'or Payne, many of you may have seen him in Nissim Black's Hava music video. Elio and Ariel Yaniv Ha'or have been friends since 2017 when they met in Yeshiva in Jerusalem. Ariel recently made aliyah to Israel. Here he shares some of his experiences from growing up in Detroit and working at a young age in The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History to being in Israel and connecting to the Aluf Abir and learning Torah in the Old City of Jerusalem. To find more of Ariel Yaniv Ha'or's content follow him on IG: https://www.instagram.com/detroit_dondata/ Make sure to check out our: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/twochassidsinapod Instagram: https://instagram.com/twochassidsinapod ​Facebook: https://facebook.com/TwoChassidsInAPod/ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/two-chassids-in-a-pod/id1550968469 ​Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6yrdv9VN5sp7yWNfv7mCDW Anchor: https://anchor.fm/twochassids

Sixteen year old Cameron Hill, a young black teenager in Detroit sees life differently after taking part in a unique program involving Detroit PAL and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History where he learned about the perspectives of leaders from the Civil Rights movement.  WWJ's Stephanie Davis talked to Hill in this edition of Voices of the Community. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This month's Live Culture offers a conversation with artist Felandus Thames and curator David Borawski about the exhibit The Things That Haunt Me Still up now at Real Art Ways in Hartford. The show, which runs until May 30, 2021, features Thames' assemblages which utilize found objects and non-traditional materials like hair beads and barrettes, to explore gender and race. Often asking more questions than offering answers, Thames’ playful use of materials and text utilizes humor as an entry point to exploring social and cultural issues. Felandus Thames is a conceptual artist living and practicing in the greater New York area. Born in Mississippi, Thames attended the graduate program in Painting and Printmaking at Yale University where he received his MFA in 2010. He has been included in exhibitions at the Kravets Wehby Gallery, Tilton Gallery, Heather James Gallery, Charles H. Wright Museum, African American Museum of Philadelphia, Mississippi Museum of Art, Yale University, Wesleyan University, Columbia University, Art Hamptons, Art LA, The Texas Contemporary, and Miami Basel. David Borawski is an artist and curator whose own work involves text and found object assemblages. His affinity with Thames' work has resulted in a thoughtfully presented exhibition in one of Connecticut's most innovative and dynamic exhibition venues. More about the show and RealArtWays can be found here: https://www.realartways.org/ more about Felandus Thames and his work can be found here: https://www.felandus.com/ Now in it's 5th Year, Live Culture is a monthly radio program about art, ideas and visual culture, hosted by artist Martha Willette Lewis and airing on WPKN radio, Bridgeport Ct. Image credits: Logo :Detail of "Small and Large Thoughts" by Joan Fitzsimmons, Courtesy of the artist Share Share Forward Forward Facebook Facebook Website Website Copyright © 2017 martha lewis All rights reserved. unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences

THISENT.com presents THIS Podcast episode 32 hosted by Mr. Joe Walker! “Before the Covid-19 changed our travel schedules, AOG2012 and I ventured to The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History to interview R&B legend Freddie Jackson! He was there to perform at the annual African Arts Festival in honor of the late ‘Queen of Soul' Aretha Franklin.” Enjoy!

Neema Barnette presents Black History Mini Docs Podcast. Actor, Filmmaker, Former Miss Black America and Co-Founder of Light the Path Home, a Juneteenth Candlelight Commemoration Event, Amina Fakir host the premiere episode. Her guest will be Ellen Dunbar, Co-Founder of Light the Path Home, a Juneteenth Candlelight Commemoration Event. Shahida Mauisi, President and CEO of The Right Productions which manages and operates the Aretha Franklin Outdoor Amphitheater on the Riverfront in Detroit and former Vice President of the Board of Directors for the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit. Kofi Tonto, Head of Information and Public Affairs to the Ghanaian Embassy to the United States in Washington D.C.

Charles H. Wright Museum President and CEO, Neil A. Barclay discusses the role of cultural institutions in a time of socio-political unrest and how the museum plans to move forward amid the coronavirus.

Gaining Value and Growth Through Public Speaking and Great PR:Pam Perry is an award-winning communications professional. She teaches and mentors authors, speakers, and entrepreneurs on how to build a platform and attract major media and publishing contracts. She is also the publisher of SPEAKERS MAGAZINE and co-founder of Digital Business Acceleration. After working with Pam, her clients have been featured on CNN, TBN, The Word Network, Radio One, Oprah Magazine, Tom Joyner Morning Show, Essence, Ebony, Black Enterprise, PBS – and many other major media outlets. Her clients have been offered major publishing contracts, and have created successful full-time careers as “authorpreneurs” earning six-figures. QUOTE: Those That Show Up, Go Up! She has been called by Publishers Weekly a “PR Guru” and featured in many major publications (including several covers), and on more than 100 radio and TV programs. She also has 20-year career expertise in marketing, public relations, and journalism in Detroit; including work with The Detroit Free Press, WNIC, The Edge with Jeffrey Miller, Radio One, Michigan Chronicle, WNIC, and TheHUB Detroit magazine. Pam has worked with many nonprofit organizations, like the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and the Detroit Area Agency on Aging, developing their social media presence, online brand, and digital marketing programs. She is also the author of Synergy Energy: How to Use the Power of Partnerships to Market Your Book, Grow Your Business and Brand Your Ministry. Known as the master of connecting the right people, for the right project, at the right time – Pam Perry PR works hard to help her clients brand (and get paid) like a superstar.   Top 3 Hot Point Takeaways:Helping others get their message out through public speaking. The power of GoFundMe and helping those in need. Remaining authentic, true, and clear with your message.   Today’s Resource Links from the Podcast:PamPerryPR.com (http://www.pamperrypr.com/) SpeakersMagazine.net (http://www.speakersmagazine.net/) DigitalBusinessAcceleration.com (http://www.digitalbusinessacceleration.com/) Linkedin.com/in/pamperryprcoach (http://linkedin.com/in/pamperryprcoach) Twitter @pamperry IG: @pam_perry IG: @aginghealthy IG: @speakersmagazine   Our Mentioned Influencers:Dr. Andrea Blake - www.drandreablake.com (http://www.drandreablake.com)   Watch us on YouTube:https://youtu.be/3QfUHbo1lgI   Timestamped Show Notes:00:30 - Introduction 10:30 - So it's like, I have a book, I want to tell my story. We can actually tell your story in a blog post or a book, but the book obviously has a spine, but it may not sell. Maybe you sell 200 books but you're blocked. Now your post we'll reach 5000. So what do you want to do? If they tell me I'd rather do a book than a blog post, then I know they're doing it for the fame because they want their name on the spine. 20:00 - I remember reading a book a long time ago and it said just put on some lipstick and you'll be fine. 31:10 - It's a brand, the red shield is a brand, the red Cadillac, a Christmas sign, that is all branding. So people who were in the marketing department help further that brand and then people give to that brand. 40:00 - I don't like people spamming my inbox. So let's tell a story instead. That's what sells, you tell and sell but don't blast me. I'm gonna delete you. 53:00 - For the listeners, they don't know that you have a cute little white puppy on your lap. What kind of breed is it again? A Maltese? 59:37 - Final Words   Our Final Words of the Show:I always tell people, those that show up, go up, meaning, just show up in your life, show up at places when you're invited to different things to show up. Then bring your A-Game, bring your best self, show up to go up. Don't just be in life where it's just participating but really be intentional about it. Where you are going and who you are meeting...

How are different arts organizations around Detroit celebrating Black History Month? Edward Foxworth of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History talks about their exhibits, and Asia Hamilton discusses the HAIRarchy exhibit at the Norwest Gallery of Art.

Director, actress, and Coordinator of Youth Programs at the The Charles H. Wright Museum Yolanda Jack rejoins Seth and Becky on the podcast to talk more about what's happening in Detroit, including the opening of the city's first Nepalese dumpling restaurant, the best burger in the city, and Sesame Street's visit to Detroit. Plus, Ann Delisi of WDET calls in to talk about the closing of the Palace in Auburn Hills.

Midtown Detroit, Inc. and the Detroit Institute of Arts have announced the winner of its DIA Plaza | Midtown Cultural Connections international design competition, first launched in 2017. Detroit Square is a proposal from an international consortium led by Paris-based Agence Ter and including Detroit-based Akoaki, rootoftwo, and Harley Etienne. The proposal reimagines the 83-acre Cultural Center in Midtown and its 12 educational and cultural institutions, highlighted by the DIA, the Detroit Public Library, the Detroit Historical Museum, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and the Michigan Science Center and several others. It includes major new green spaces, a winding greenway connecting the 12 institutions, cafes, art installations, performance spaces and two plaza areas that could serve as public event spaces and warrant the temporary closure of Woodward to vehicles. There’s also a big focus on adding public Wi-Fi and 5G cellular connections throughout the site. In addition to talking about that on today’s show, we cover: Royal Oak has had enough of your Woodward cruise shenanigans, and police there are adopting a zero-tolerance policy toward speeding, illegal parking and littering. Google is investing $17 in expansions in Detroit and Ann Arbor. The Special Inspector General For the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or SIGTARP, will audit demolitions in Detroit and other Michigan cities to monitor against the spread of contaminated soil. About 100 security guards in downtown Detroit have voted to go on strike. A man listed by police as a suspect in a string of serial killings in Detroit has been charged in an attack after his alleged victim was able to escape. [Detroit News] And I offer a completely ludricrous-but-maybe-not idea for relocating the Grand Prix from Belle Isle: The ring road at Oakland Mall. Thanks for listening to Daily Detroit. If you like what you’re hearing, tell a friend about us, leave us a review and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, or support us by becoming a Patreon member.

Episode Notes Piper Carter Podcast Episode #54The Newest Episode, #54 @Pipercarter Podcast, on @DetroitisDifferent: “Flint: The Poisoning of an American City”*Show Topic: * This week @PiperCarter and cohost Brittany visit the Charles H. Wright Museum to watch the film dedicated to Flint: The poisoning of American City. Afterwards we interviewed the dynamic Panel that consisted of James Perkinson, Water Activist, Mike Harris, Philanthropist, Founder, Flint Community Development Center, Catrina Tillman, First Lady of First Trinity Church, Founder of SHE Ministries and Ambassador for The Water Box Project with Jaden Smith, 501C3, Ovie Mughelli, Former NFL Fullback Atlanta Falcons, Environmentalist and Philanthropist, Peter Hammer, Director of the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights and Professor of Law, David Barnhart, Barnhart Film, Director of the film, And Detroit’s own Monica Lewis-Patrick, Human Rights Activist, President & CEO, We The People of Detroit. Weekly Featured Music: Oceane Ft D Shazz - Raindrops & Steph Pockets - Dream OnListen + Subscribe NOW: Apple Podcast | Google Play | Stitcher |Piper Carter is the founder of 'We Found Hip-hop.' Advocate for Women in Hip-hop, Hip-hop culture, Detroit advocacy, Artistry, and Youth Dilla Day Detroit.

www.leadandbelegendary.net Join the E-Mail list http://eepurl.com/cUlFPX + New single coming soon from Nametag that’ll be streamed exclusively at www.nametagalexander.com + Live Podcast Mixer for Urban Podcast Month will be May 26th at Charles H. Wright Museumin Detroit, MI. Ticket prices/Door fees, and more details on flyer. Click the IG link for more details https://www.instagram.com/p/BxnkLSClT32/?igshid=tv2eapdd457c + Listeners of this podcast can now record and submit up to a minute of voice message audio to be featured on the show. Click the link in the description/show’s notes to do so. One of the upcoming episodes will be about the best remixes in Rap, so send in your voice messages saying the best Rap remixes to you. Song included at the end of the episode is a snippet of ‘Work Win Repeat’ by Nametag Alexander featuring Junii, prod. by Black Bethoven. Stream/download exclusively at www.nametagalexander.com on May 24th, or wait until it’s official release, which will be soon. Subscribe, and leave a rating and review if you listen on Apple Podcasts. Join the ‘LABL Podcast’ Facebook group. Submit questions via DM on Instagram @leadandbelegendary Follow Nametag on IG: @nametagalexanderTwitter: @nametagalxndr  Facebook: Nametag Alexander --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leadandbelegendary/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/leadandbelegendary/support

The 2nd Annual Detroit Heritage Theatre Festival-2019 Friday May 17-Sunday May 19 ... "It's ALL About Detroit" Founded by Karen Chappelle who grew up in Detroit and after years away from Detroit and a career in Law has come back to her roots in Detroit and her love of the Arts since she was a young girl because of the plays she got to be involved in with the Detroit Parks and Rec. Here is an overview.... Detroit Heritage Theatre Festival-2019 "It's ALL About Detroit" 1 Welcome to Detroit’s Newest Theatrical Event. This year the Detroit Heritage Theatre Festival (DHTF) continues its tradition celebrating Detroit’s rich heritage. The Opening Play takes us back to a more genteel period in our history; Nacirema- American spelled backwards. In this year of the woman, we share the work of playwright Pearl Cleage, who spent many years growing up here in Detroit. A Celebration of Art for Detroit, by Detroit. The Detroit Heritage Theatre Festival proudly invites playwrights of all ages to showcase their talents during an amazing and immersive new festival! An experience like none other, participants are invited to present work that inspires and innovates; intentionally subverting the traditional narratives about Detroit. The festival is designed to utilize as many of the spaces in the cultural corridor as possible, in addition to reaching out and including the oldest, newest, professional, amateur and student artists. The festival will take place over three days. Day one: May 17, The festival opening and reception takes place at The Players Club, 3321 East Jefferson Avenue Detroit, MI. The Players Club was designated as a Michigan Heritage site in 1975, built in 1925. With a four story high stage and auditorium accommodating 200, a kitchen, dressing rooms, basement storage, prop rooms and a formal meeting room on upper floor. This is a private club and not traditionally open to the public. The commonality of mission, using art to educate and engage the community has formed a wonderful home for DHTF Opening Night festivities. The mission of the Detroit Heritage Theatre Festival coincided with the current mission of the Players club for community outreach. We will utilize the services of the Capuchin kitchen, whose services to the poor and under served in Detroit and help restore their lives is also consistent with the mission of the transformative nature of art. Day Two: May 18, 2019 our venue is the Historic and beautiful Detroit Main Public Library located at 5201 Woodward Ave. Detroit Michigan. The Detroit Public Library enlightens and empowers people and artists by providing diverse and dynamic pathways to literacy and learning. This year we will launch the very first Dominique Morisseau monologue competition. This is more than a competition. It’s a workshop with teaching and professional artists, and an introduction to one of the gifted playwrights of our generation. . .from OUR hometown! High School students in grades 9-12 from across the city will gather at the HYPE Teen Center in the Detroit Main Public Library to broadcast live on 791.4 HYPE radio. The three round progressive competition will award a cash prize to the top 3 students. It will be held in the friends auditorium May 18, 2019 from 9 am to 4 pm. Also, Day 2, right down the hall, in the Explorer Room, we look forward to performances from students at Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit. Mosaic, with a mission of empowering young people through professional performing arts training is, will perform their signature piece and excerpt from their current production: Detroit to Dakar, the powerful true story of a group of Detroit teenagers who traveled to sing in Dakar, Senegal in 2003. This performance opens the Ten Minute Festival of Plays About Detroit. This is a showcase of performances by students and professional artists in Detroit. We will again offer coffee and pastries compliments of Avalon Bakery- Midtown Detroit. There will be follow up workshops offered with “ How To” tips on writing 10 minute play. This will continue to connect and promote great theatre community engagement. Day 3: Closing day of the festival takes place a the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History located 315 E. Warren Ave, Detroit, Michigan 48201, now the second largest permanent collection on African-American culture. The museum now hosting an exhibit which pays tribute to the intellect, heroism and brotherhood of the World War II heroes. Detroit boasts of several original Tuskegee airmen ages 93 to 103! The event begins with a reception. The tribute will be followed by a production of the Off- Broadway Sensation: Black Angels Over Tuskegee, by Layon Gray in the beautiful General Motors Theatre. There will also be an awards program which acknowledges the outstanding work of selected artists: Renee Elyse Goldsberry, Pearl Cleage, and Jeff Daniels. Awards will be given to festival participants and honorees, and certificates awarded from the mayors office. . . . Because It's All About Detroit!! Selected playwrights will be provided with all the necessary resources, and watch as their pieces are produced featuring professional artist. Once selected, playwrights will be assigned dedicated industry professionals as mentors. Join us as we use theatre to build our community. www.detroitheritagetheatrefestival.org

Michael Imhotep host of The African History Network Show on the 3-10-19 edition discussed 1) R. Kelly breaks his silence on sexual abuse claims: "I have been assassinated". His accusers says his lying and playing the victim. 2) R. Kelly's former attorney said “he was guilty as hell” in the 2008 case. 3) Charles Ferrell of The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History In Detroit discusses their March 2019 programs and events and Thomas Jefferson and Slavery. 4) Paul Manafort, Trump's former Campaign Chairman received 47 months in sentencing which is showing the racism in the Criminal Justice System. 5) Jussie Smollett is indicted on 16 felony counts in Chicago. 6) Muhammad Ali fought Joe Frazier, March 8th, 1971. Here's what happened and what Ali said would happen if they fought again. - We are celebrating the 9 year Anniversary of The African History Network Show!!!  Donate to The African History Network at http://www.PayPal.me/TheAHNShow or visit http://www.AfricanHistoryNetwork.com and click on the yellow “Donate” button.

Craig speaks with Neil Barclay, CEO of the Charles H. Wright museum, and also with Kevin Roach of Methodist Children's Home Society about child abuse and neglect, and the impact the opioid crisis is having on organizations like theirs.  Is the state funding there to meet the increasing need?   

Michael Imhotep host of The African History Network Show on 910 AM WFDF, 12-30-18 discussed: 1) #BeingWhileBlack – Black Hotel guest gets kicked out for talking on his cell phone.  2) From Kwanzaa to WAKANDA: Reconnecting African Americans to African Culture for Self Empowerment.  3) Black Wrestler for to cut his locs or forfeit match.  4) Day 9 of Trump's Government Shutdown!!!  5) The damage done by Jeff Sessions' last act as AG and Ferguson, MO 4 years later.  6) Russian Effort to Influence 2016 Election Targeted African-Americans. Michael Imhotep host of “The African History Network Show” will be at the Kwanzaa celebration of Imani (Faith) Tues. Jan. 1st, 2019, 3pm-6pm at The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. The Wright Museum is celebrating Kwanzaa all 7 days, Mon. Dec. 26th, 2018 - Sun. Jan. 1st, 2019. FREE and open to the public. Michael Imhotep will be there on Tues. Jan. 1st. Be sure to visit his Vendor Table in The African Marketplace. Visit www.TheWright.org for more information. Visit www.AfricanHistoryNetwork.com. From Kwanzaa to WAKANDA: Reconnecting African Americans to African Culture – Michael Imhotep 12-27-18 Digital Download http://theafricanhistorynetwork.net/From-Kwanzaa-to-WAKANDA-Reconnecting-African-Americans-to-African-Culture-Digital-Download

Kiko Davis is the only female African American bank owner in the United States.  She is also the trustee of the Donald Davis Living Trust. Kiko’s late husband, Don Davis, was the former chairman and owner of First Independence Bank, the 7th largest African-American controlled bank in the United States, which is still controlled by the Davis family.    She is also the founder and president of the Don Davis Legacy Foundation, established in 2016 to perpetuate the legacy building efforts and initiatives envisioned and developed by the late, Donald Davis, world renowned music producer turned banking mogul.   Kiko Davis is the Managing Director of Groovesville Productions & Publishing LLC which controls the Grammy Award-winning music catalog of her late husband.   A respected investor, speaker and mentor, Kiko Davis received many accolades and awards for her work. Mrs. Davis, a Detroit native, is also a devoted mother to her two children. Davis takes pride in her philanthropic efforts and extends her support to great causes and organizations such as the Ronald McDonald House, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and many other organizations that serve the community. She also served for three years on the Lawrence P. Doss Scholarship Foundation as a nonprofit board member. For more info on Kiko Davis  visit  www.KikoDavis.com Keep in contact with us, sign up and get our free gift to YOU: https://drgenevaspeaks.com Follow our hashtag #ignite2impact  Please share this podcast & let us what you think, *subscribe in iTunes and leave a review ​

Listen to the podcast of The African History Network Show with Michael Imhotep from Sunday, Dec. 2nd, 2018. We discussed: 1) Amber Guyger indicted on “Murder” for the killing of Botham Shem Jean in Dallas.  2) Ancient artifacts 2.4 million yrs old reveal ALL of Africa was the 'cradle of humankind'.  3) Charles Ferrell of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History discussed upcoming events/programs dealing with our history we need to support.  4) EJ Bradford was another “good guy with a gun” killed by Police in Alabama.  They first said he was the shooter then admitted they made a huge mistake.  5) “The Mississippi Sovereignty Commission and Medgar Evers”.  6) The Coalition For Black Legacy at The Charles H. Wright Museums holds a press conference to protest the Thomas Jefferson exhibit coming the CHWMAA and to save the progressive programming at the CHWMAA.   Get 20% Off Your Order of $100 of more Until Friday, Dec. 14th! Use Coupon Code “AHN20OFF2018”. http://www.AfricanHistoryNetwork.com Donate to The African History Network at http:www.PayPal.me/TheAHNShow or visit http://www.AfricanHistoryNetwork.com and click on the yellow “Donate” button.

POWERING UP Host Anne Doyle was one of the first trailblazing female journalists who helped to open professional and college sports locker rooms to women journalists. She was on the front lines of those fights in the late 1970's and 1980's and was inducted into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame for  literally "opening doors" for generations of female sports journalists who have followed in her path. She was recently asked to tell a story about her experiences on stage at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit for  the globally broadcast storytelling series, The Secret Society of Twisted Storytellers.

Director, actor, and musician Travis Reiff returns to the podcast to talk about everything that's happening in Detroit this week, including teal pumpkins, hand-crafted guitars, and a slasher play at the Charles H. Wright Museum.

Listen to the podcast of “The African History Network Show” with Michael Imhotep on 910 AM Superstation Detroit from Sunday, Oct. 21st, 2018, 9pm-11pm EST.  1) #BeingBlack White people keep calling the Police on African Americans for #BeingBlack and are facing backlash. This includes 'Cornerstore Carolina' in Brooklyn, NY who falsely accused a 9 year old African American boy of sexually assaulting her.  2) Part 2: Kanye West, Donald Trump & “White Supremacy by Ventriloquism”: The History of Why African Americans switched from being Republicans to Democrats.  3) Georgia Sec. of State Brian Kemp is blocking 53,000 people from registering to vote, 70% are African American.  There is a fear that Stacey Abrams will become Governor.  4) Dr. Kefentse Chike gives us an update on the effort to save the Progressive Programming at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.  Donate to The African History Network through PayPal http://www.PayPal.me/TheAHNShow. Visit http://www.AfricanHistoryNetwork.com for DVD lectures, articles, podcasts and more.

Listen to the podcast of “The African History Network Show” with Michael Imhotep on 910 AM Superstation Detroit from Sunday, Oct. 7th, 2018, 9pm-11pm EST.  1)  Officer Jason Van Dyke found guilty of 2nd Degree Murder for killing Laquan McDonald in Chicago.  2) The Congressional Black Caucus released a video detailing what African Americans have lost since Donald Trump became President and the importance of mid-term elections.  3) Min. Troy Muhammad of the Nation of Islam discusses The Day of Atonement taking place Sat. Oct. 14th in Detroit at The Aretha Franklin Park (Chene Park).  4) There is an attack on the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American. We'll discuss that attempt to keep the programs at the museum from being watered down. 5) Namibia plans to take back land from white owners and ration it out to its Black population.  Donate to The African History Network through PayPal http://www.PayPal.me/TheAHNShow. (New Item) Meltrek Bundle Pack Exploring African History for Children DVD & Books ORDER HERE: http://theafricanhistorynetwork.net/Meltrek-Bundle-Pack-Exploring-African-History-for-Children-DVD-Books Listen to The African History Network Show with Michael Imhotep, Sundays, 9pm-11pm EST on 910 AM WFDF in Detroit or around the world online at www.910AMSuperstation.com or by downloading the 910AM App to your smartphone or at www.AfricanHistoryNetwork.com and listen to the podcasts. Watch on Facebook LIVE at "The African History Network".

Carlotta Tutt Holloway is a progressive marketer with over 20 years working experience in the field of Marketing, Media and Advertising. Carlotta’s career highlights include spearheading Walmart’s sponsorship of the ESSENCE Music Festival, the world’s largest cultural gathering of African Americans with national broadcaster Shaun Robinson.  Additionally, Carlotta is founder and owner of True Root Marketing and The She Is Project, offering varied marketing and experiential services, plus entrepreneurship and branding education for women respectively, and she is an avid community volunteer. She holds a true affinity for all things culturally inspirational, creative, and artistic and regularly provides educational, special event, and marketing, promotions, and volunteer services for such organizations as the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History where she is a Museum Educator and Special Events Volunteer, the Mosaic Youth Theatre, BUILD Institute, Detroit Synergy, American Black Film Festival, and other national and civic special projects and events. Carlotta serves on the Board of Directors for both Detroit Garment Group and Living Arts organizations, is Vice President and Program Chair for The Pierians, Inc., serves as BUF Connect (Black United Fund of MI) Vice President, and holds committee positions for Michigan Black Chamber of Commerce Next Generation Committee, Women of Color Entrepreneur Circle Committee, Women of Color STEM Conference Committee, and Bravo Bravo Committee.  Carlotta received a Bachelor of Arts Degree and Minor Degree in Advertising and Communications and African American Studies respectively from Purdue University.  For more info on Carlotta Tutt Holloway visit www.truerootmarketing.com Keep in contact with us, sign up and get our free gift to YOU: http://www.drgenevaspeaks.com Follow our hashtag #ignite2impact  Please share this podcast & let us what you think, *subscribe in iTunes and leave a review

DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit museum that hosted Aretha Franklin’s public visitations after her death is again holding space for her — this time with an exhibit featuring photographs, videos and the red shoes she wore at the first funeral viewing that drew global attention. Billed as a “tribute to the Queen of Soul,” ″THINK” opens to the public Tuesday at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and runs until Jan. 21, Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The show is a prelude what the museum envisions is a larger, long-term exhibit that would debut late next year or in early 2020. And both could be a proving ground for a permanent museum honoring Franklin and her family. “My aunt used to always talk about having a Franklin family museum,” Franklin’s niece, Sabrina Owens, told The Associated Press. “That’s not on the immediate horizon, but I thought this would be a good start to it.” The first show aims to capture and celebrate Franklin’s life in an intimate space that’s designed to change and offer surprises over time — much like its subject did. “This mirrors the way she was — keep on adding things to a collection, giving people something different to look forward to — just goes along with who she was as a person,” Owens said. “She just always wanted to change, keep herself relevant.” In addition to the candy-apple red shoes, the exhibit includes a replica of the matching red dress she wore at the visitation. It also features video from various performances and appearances. Visitors are greeted by a large video monitor with three clips playing on a loop, including her scene-stealing turn singing “Think” in the film “The Blues Brothers.” The images and artifacts span her life — among them a photo of her birth home in Memphis, Tennessee, a framed copy of the first record she cut in her longtime home of Detroit and a close-up shot of her singing “My Country ’Tis of Thee” at President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration. It also includes images captured by The Associated Press during her visitations, funeral, and interment. Museum officials say the cultural landmark takes great pride in hosting the exhibit, as well as maintaining a connection with Franklin, who died Aug. 16 at 76. The museum says roughly 31,000 people came through to see her during the Aug. 29-30 visitation period. Given how recently she died, museum officials say it was important to capture and present some of those elements “of residual grief and love” for the inaugural exhibit. “We’re trying to continue from the viewing the emotional experience we witnessed — see the emotional connection people had with the Queen and allow people to feel that,” said George Hamilton, the Wright’s interim CEO. The feelings came rushing back to Gloria Easley, 68, who came from Chicago on Friday with her sister. The women thought the exhibit had already opened to the public, but Hamilton welcomed them nonetheless. “When I came in and walked through the door, I was a bit taken aback,” said Easley, who said she spoke by phone on numerous occasions with Franklin’s late father, the Rev. C.L. Franklin, and met the singer at gospel trailblazer Mahalia Jackson’s 1972 funeral in Chicago. “I got a little emotional, having flashbacks listening to her voice.” Easley, who first “fell in love” with the young Franklin’s voice on radio broadcasts of her father’s services, told Hamilton that the exhibit hits the right notes. “You’re doing it in the right way and for the right reasons,” she told him. For the current and planned future exhibit, the museum is working with the Franklin family on creating something that encompasses her life and its impact. “Aretha was obviously important to the world and important to Detroit,” said museum board member Kelly Major Green. “We want to be able to express that appropriate and commensurate with the legacy that it is.” Franklin’s niece believes it’s a great way to start sharing that legacy. She adds that the exhibits and the public’s response to them ca...

Enjoy this short but action packed piece taken from our first day in Detroit - this was at the Queen of Soul's memorial at The Charles H Wright museum. Aretha was BELOVED by Detroit and Detroit was beloved by Aretha. The pic you see of the gold coffin was taken at the actual funeral - we didn't get too much coverage there as we wanted to be respectful and it was quite honestly so overwhelming to see some of the greatest artists and activists of the Civil Rights movement right before our very eyes. Aretha - we love you Queen - RESPECT!

#RoyalWedding, Black people, British Slave Trade, Colonizers! Listen to the PODCAST of The African HIstory Network Show with  Michael Imhotep from 5-20-18  2) Dr. Ray Winbush, Expert on Race Relations and Director of the Institute for Urban Research at Morgan State Unviversity discusses African Liberation Day & Reparations.  He will be at Detroit's celebration of African Liberation Day, May 25th -26th at Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. 3) Backlash from White people calling the police on African Americans for no reason. 4) How African American Jockeys dominated Horse Racing and were pushed out because of Racism. 5) Malcolm X's 93rd Birthday. Online Course: “Ancient Kemet (Egypt), The Moors & The Maafa: Understanding The Trans-Atlantic Slave What They Didn't Teach You In School” Register at http://theafricanhistorynetworkschool.learnworlds.com/bundles?bundle_id=african-history-network-course-bundle-pack If you like this type of information you can Donate to The African History Network through PayPal www.PayPal.me/TheAHNShow   Visit www.AfricanHistoryNetwork.com for DVD lectures, articles and podcasts from Michael Imhotep host of The African History Network Show and founder of The African History Network.

This mother of two adult children is an accomplished film maker, poet, short story writer, essayist, editor and retired higher education administrator. She holds a Doctorate in Adult and Higher Education; a Master of Arts in Adult and Higher Education; and a Master of Science in General Administration . She has been invited to speak at numerous workshops and conventions throughout the United States and Canada. As a youth, she spent 12 years in the foster care system and as the old adage goes “What doesn’t break you, makes you stronger!” She shares her personal foster care journey in her memoir IF NOT FOR DREAMS: MEMORIES OF A FOSTER CHILD. Her writing is also included in the anthology GROWING UP IN THE CARE OF STRANGERS. She also penned a novella, Dancing Under the Same Moon and has been featured in several other publications. As a contemporary abstract artist her work has been shown at the Detroit Artist Market, National Conference of Artist Gallery, Jo’s Gallery and The Juanita Ford Gallery and the Charles H. Wright African American Museum. Her production company, Reel Women Speak is dedicated to impacting the lives of women through visual media. Collective Voices: Wisdom of our Lesbian Elders is her first independent film.

jessica Care moore is a poet, playwright, actor and activist. She’s shared the stage with Steve Harvey, Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, Amiri Baraka… jessica Care moore has graced the cover of The New York Times, The Metro Times, Michigan FrontPage, Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, African Voices Magazine, Black Elegance Magazine, and has been featured in print and online magazines across the world, including, Essence,Huffington Post, Blaze, The Source, Vibe, Bomb, Mosaic, Savoy, One World,  Upscale, Ambassador Magazine, UPTOWN and others. SHE IS POETRY IN MOTION making it happen!  Her multimedia show, God is Not an American, was produced by The Apollo Theater and Time Warner’s NYC Parks Summer Concert Series.  She was the host, writer and co-Executive Producer of the poetry driven television show, Spoken, which was executive produced by and directed by Robert Townsend.  As an artist/activist, jessica Care moore lent her powerful voice to the international fight against AIDS. She performed for the United Nations World AIDS Day Commemoration two years in a row. moore has also performed in front of  thousands of  people during AIDS WALK Opening Ceremonies in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Florida and Atlanta. jessica Care moore lives for the stage and her audience. Her techno solo theater performance, The Missing Project: Pieces of the D is an high energy homage to Detroit. Black Tea: The Legend of Jessi James is her debut album. The album features guest appearances from Talib Kweli, Roy Ayers and Jose James. Her work has been on exhibit at the American Jazz Museum in Kansas City and the Charles H. Wright Museum for her Black WOMEN Rock! Exhibition.  What else is her legacy? The jess Care moore Foundation, her nonprofit, which focuses on youth literacy and expression through art. She is a Youth Institution Builder.  Hear this provocative and entertaining episode that ends with one of those powerful poems that made jessica Care moore a five-time record-breaking legend at just 24 years old at "It's Showtime at the Apollo” competition.  She believes in igniting others to impact the world. She is real, raw, bold, unapologetic, compassionate and candid.  See show notes at www.drgenevaspeaks.com/podcasts  Follow our hashtag #ignite2impact  Please share this podcast, subscribe in iTunes and leave a review  

The 50th Anniversary Of Detroit 'Riots' - With Survivor Kimberly Simmons! The Gist of Freedom as host, Mariam Guilliams welcomes Kimberly Simmons descendant of The Militant Abolitionist Lewis Leary, (John Brown Raider and The "John Price Rescue"). Kimberly will share stories of her family legacy in social activism, from Lewis Leary and The Underground Railroad Movement - Langston Hughes and The Harlem Renaissance. The exhibition is organized by the DIA and is in collaboration with the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, which organized the complementary exhibition, “Say It Loud: Art, History, Rebellion.” Both are part of a community-wide reflection on the Detroit rebellion of 1967 that involves about 100 local institutions led by the Detroit Historical Museum. “Art of Rebellion” has been generously supported by the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan and the Whitney Fund.